Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal
# Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal

Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal (fl. 1470) was a medieval Scottish poet.

## Biography

In 1470, she wrote an elegy to her husband, Niall Og Mac Neill, Constable of Castle Sween, Knapdale, which was the earliest documented poem in Classic Scottish Gaelic, written by a woman. It was written in the Classic Bardic meter and is one of only four existing poems written in this style by a woman.

